Let's take some time to thank Supercell..
Thank you, Supercell, for not having any purchase only significant features in your game. I'm sure we've all played some games where the only things that you truly wanted were purchase only, and I'm truly thankful that is not the case in this game. Here, you spend money to speed things up, and I'm perfectly okay with that, because I know I can eventually get everything that they have without spending, just at a much slower speed.
I think everyone needs to stop and realize before they start complaining about money spent, or any of that. Things could be much worse. Does anybody remember Farmville? That game went from fairly interesting to an absolute wallet-breaker seemingly overnight, simply because the only things they gave to people who didn't want to spend money were absolute garbage.
That, and instead of making things better, they just made what was good worse, instead. Nerfing everything instead of buffing other things does not a fun game make.
Supercell does not appear to follow these two Farmville staples, and for that, I thank them.